McGowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 Wash. 2d 397 - Tapper v. Employment Security Department · 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State · Amalgamated Transit v. State · Srcc v. Public Disclosure Com'n · State v. Bobic
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"whether the constitutional and unconstitutional provisions are so connected ... that it could not be believed that the legislature would have passed one without the other; or where the part eliminated is so intimately connected with the balance of the act as to make it useless to accomplish the purposes of the legislature."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]eginning with the 2001-02 school year, the state shall fully fund the cost-of-living increase in this section as part of its obligation to meet the basic education requirements under Article IX of the Washington Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · McGowan v. State“calculated by applying the rate of the yearly increase in the cost-of-living index to any state-funded salary base used in state funding formulas for teachers and other school district employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · McGowan v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.